Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

On 8 June 1954, Turing’s cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the ...